Phaedrus
Phaedrus was a Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.
Fables
- Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
- Book I, fable 2, line 31
- That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
- Book I, fable 9, line 1
- No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
- Book I, fable 18, line 1
- Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
- Book I, fable 26, line 12
- Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
- Translation: Things are not always what they seem.
- Book IV, fable 2, line 5
- To add insult to injury
- Book V, line 3
- Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.
- Book VII, line 4